Ariin finally relaxed, slipping away from the other he went down to engineering bay Paladin wanted to research something and Ariin wanted the voice in his had trying to remove the moral grey area of grand theft food gone. Once he'd allowed Paladin to migrate out of his head at least for a little while, he headed for the kitchen quietly. The veteran thief entered the kitchen finding it abandoned he set to work, in a few moments undoing the locks and putting on an apron before he washed up. Ariin worked with the speed and efficiency only known to those who had to cook several different meals for children who were picky eaters. The young man began first on a large multilayer cake and then on batches of cupcakes mixing up icing first before snapping his fingers thinking back to the few parties he'd seen on Mars he burst back in the luxury ration supplies.

Starting on pizza Ariin stopped only a moment to put on headphones and turn a song, cleaning his hands once more the young man thought back to the few honest days work he'd done in his life. Mostly busing dishes, waiting tables, or in the weeks before his arrest cooking at local diners, Mars boasting a large garrison meant plenty of soldiers ate out. Soon Ariin sat down the finished pizza dough as he ducked back across his footsteps perfectly moving to the beat as the slim young man spun across the room. He took out the cake and began to ice it, carefully, taking time to write Paladin's name on it. As he then did the cupcakes doing each with little versions of Paladin in various poses. 

[i][u]Meanwhile back at the [s]ranch[/s] engineering lab...[/u][/i]
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Paladin had been doing research, also compiling music for the party but mostly research. Paladin had become curious about the idea of family, Ariin had such a strong sense of it yet from what the werk understood family was closer than Ariin was to the pilots in the squadron. Ariin viewed them as such yet seemed to try and keep them at arm's length, the pilot seemed to fear others getting attached to him but did not fear himself being attached to others. A curious case peaked the learning computers interest, of course viewing Ariin's memories Paladin saw Ariin's childhood and the years the young man spent raising his siblings on Mars. Paladin needed more data, yet something... More Paladin did not like the idea of remaining inside Ariin's mind. Paladin wanted first-hand knowledge of family... The Werk also wanted Ariin to have someone to be with him even if the others would exit the military one day, Ariin could not and Paladin then resolved to find a way to be there for the person who had come to consider family. It was the least the werk could do for Ariin, to give him company.

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Ariin finished preparing the pizza's deciding to leave them uncooked in the large fridge for the moment and set the cakes and cupcakes aside, hiding them from the cooks. The young pilot cleaned up quickly took his headphones off waiting until the camera's rotated and dashed out of the kitchen. He headed down to engineering retrieving Paladin with a simple upload. "Hey, buddy... Almost missed your back talk, grab all the music we need? Great, transfer it up to my laptop... Oh, shut up... I knew the eye had wifi." He grumbled as he left engineering to return to the room to rest.

Changing out of his clothing into just his underclothes he yawned and collapsed on the bed. "Hey, bud... Thanks, for always getting my back I promise we are gonna have fun tomorrow." He rolled onto his side looking into the mirror as he saw Paladin flash a thumbs up in return. "Anyway, I better sleep gotta finish cooking after the mess empties tomorrow." He grumbled before his good eye shut and he passed out upon the bed. 

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[b]PALLY AND ARIIN'S ANNIVERSARY!!![/b]

As the clock for Martian time ticked over the message began to flash across Paladin's eye, it had been roughly ten hours since the pilot had fallen asleep. Deciding to wake him up, Paladin prodded Ariin's brain with impulses from his eye groaning Ariin awoke and stared into the mirror. "Thanks, Paladin. I know you hate the nickname." Ariin groaned and rose pulling on a shirt and jeans then his hoodie he went to set up. First getting Paladin synched into the recreational room with control over lights, music, and even a large monitor and a microphone for those who wished to speak with the werk at the party. Paladin also had pulled images from Ariin's brain and from records of their battles that were on file for viewing since the Lorenzo had been given project over the idea of mass producing Paladin.

Ariin began to cook pizza soon returned setting out food for all as Paladin let music echo through the room, the young man smiled proudly. "I'd say we did pretty well for having no budget." He spoke back turned to the door, invites had been sent out the day before to all squad members and associates, of course, he didn't know who all would show up but Paladin still he was happy they had plenty of pizza to go around in all different kinds and sweets too. In varieties, the cake, however, was red velvet Ariin's favorite. Let an emoji of fireworks exploding appear on the monitor to celebrate the success they had in creating a party, Paladin now just hoped many friends would come to celebrate the day they were partnered together.